Any Irish reader who ploughs through Richard Butterwick’s sombre, meticulous and authoritative history of Lithuania will be ...

Archaeologists led by University of Missouri professor Marcello Mogetta have uncovered a massive stone-lined water basin in the ancient Roman city of Gabii, just eleven miles east of Rome. Built ...

Most of us have fantasized about finding treasure at some point in our lives. Some dream of stumbling upon pirate treasure while vacationing in known hot spots for serious treasure hunters. Others ...

Russian aerial incursions and "shadow fleet" vessels are deepening NATO concern. LONDON -- Vaindloo island, a tiny rocky outcrop in the Gulf of Finland, is serving as an unlikely barometer for rising ...

James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a retired US Navy admiral, former supreme allied commander of NATO, and vice chairman of global affairs at the Carlyle Group. As a retired admiral and ...

As Germany demilitarized after World War II, it dumped massive amounts of its leftover munitions into the Baltic Sea. A recent study has found that some of those submerged weapons, which are still ...

FILE-In this Aug. 21, 2018 file photo beach chairs are lined up before sunrise in Timmendorfer Strand at the Baltic Sea, northern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Scientists say that half of the world ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...

EU/NATO states are weighing a blockade or port denial strategy in the Baltic to counter Russia’s hybrid warfare and dark fleet operations. Denial measures—insurance restrictions, STS policing, and ...

COPENHAGEN — Denmark’s defense ministry said Sunday that it had again observed drones at several of its armed forces’ locations overnight, a day after the NATO alliance announced that it would enhance ...

As tensions rise between Europe and Russia, Russian aircraft have pierced NATO airspace in Poland, Romania and Estonia in recent weeks. And in the Baltic Sea, another incident has raised the stakes ...

An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life. At a former weapons dump site in the Baltic Sea, ...